Author: Rob Bowyer

This year we had 6 positions on the ballot: President, Secretary, and 4 Members at Large. We received one nomination for President and one nomination for Secretary. As a result, Tina Fletcher has been acclaimed as President and Sabina Simons has been acclaimed as Secretary. Congratulations to both of them!
We had 5 candidates nominated for the 4 Member at Large positions. The candidates are:
Ed de Graaf
Jared Small
Kyle Lewis
Graeme Harvey
Scott Acker
An email was sent out earlier th...

It is that time of year again that we select our Board of Directors for the upcoming year. This year there are 6 positions being voted on:
President*
Secretary
Member-at-Large (4)
Nominations are now open, if you would like to nominate someone (or yourself) please send an email to info@KWSQA.org. Please include the following details:
Name and email address of the nominee
Position being nominated for
* Eligibility requirement for president: Nominee must have he...

We started on the journey to update and have better control of our website about eight months ago. Some of the changes have been extremely beneficial. We can easily make updates to the site. We have better control of our back-end. And we don't have to rely on someone else to do technical updates for us.
However, what we have learned is that we are not web designers. Creating a dynamic, current and most of all helpful website is not easy. Even with the best tools on the market.
Change is co...

TOPIC: The theme song of adaptive development teams isn't "Qué Será, Será" - planning delivery like you mean it.
PRESENTED BY: Andrew Annett
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY: Andrew Annett is a seasoned facilitator and coach who believes conversations are the operating system of organizations and anything that promotes flow of quality work is a good thing. Andrew has experience working within agile teams and on large, complex multi-year programs and his passion is for helping the world communicate ...

A lot of times in the agile world we hear about MVP - Minimum Viable Product. What this means is you perform the smallest a amount of work to get the base level of the product out the door. The idea is get something usable out and then build on that.
This is what we are doing with this site. We could have spent months crafting the site. We could have gone through a full waterfall process of requirements, design, tons of review and late delivery. Or we could have hired someone to build us the ...

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We are the Kitchener-Waterloo Software Quality Association. An organization dedicated to the professional development of software testing and quality assurance practices. Peer run, non-profit, we are dedicated to the community of software quality professionals in and near the Waterloo Region.Read More...